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' itli inoistura,) it) at len;!(li uuitlcioiit to force 



-ualniii a column of wiilor s.nnt'tliing above 



ico of the utljaconl soil. I piosimio were 



iiiunicatioQ til bocutotVhy any iiipaiiii witli 



'ioU);li ilixtant, liijriicr tliiin (lio surface of 



I ground around tlio liarrvlH, it would not ri«c 



JVC tlic rim. Probably with a ncutor adju9t- 



nt and a perfectly watcr-li);lit ajiparatua, a still 



ater elevation might be obtained. The origin 



natural springs is accounted for in precisely the 



■noway; tlio only dilTcrence is that we furnish 



artificial reservoir for the almost iinpcrcepliblo 



erics of the earth, which otiienviee would steal 



ay to some natural orifices issuing at the sur- 



The stones assust in enabling a small quan- 



of water to rise to a higher level; perhaps 



ir natural coldness aids in condensing terrcstial 



t may be c:onsidercd analogous to the creating 

 ssiio in our own flesh by inserting a pea, for 

 tanco, in a muscular part of the body, and thus 

 atiiig a dissemination of the natural lymph to 

 particular orifice. I should have made trial of 

 plan on my own place, but (fortunately in all 

 er ri'spects) mine is a piece of groundabound- 

 water, and would, add no corroboration, 

 refore, to the e.Tperiments of the inventor. Re- 

 ring so little trouble, perhaps some of your con- 

 ntors will put it into execution and communi- 

 the result. A SUBSCRIBER. 



GOV. HILL'S 0.\T CROP, 

 midst the drought of the present year, the edi- 

 of tlie Visitor has been highly successful in a 

 > of oats. Land which yielded less than half a 

 of hay to the acre in the summer of 1839, was 

 red up in the sward about the 20th of May. 

 3 — about forty loads of manure were spread to 

 acre ; a portion of it was turned under the sod ; 

 rtion was plowed in to the depth of four in- 

 :, and a portion was simply harrowed under ; 

 the land produced a very decent crop of Indian 

 and potatoes. The original sod was hardly 

 jrbed either in the last year's cultivation or the 

 ing of the present spring. The land was 

 «ly plowed once the present spring, and six 

 •els only of oats sowed upon four acres. The 

 came up so thin that several persons pronounc- 

 jerc would be nothing of them early in June : 

 branched and spread in the course of the sum- 

 so that they were as heavy upon the ground as 

 ubie the quantity had been sowed. Some of 

 I were five feet in height, and the straws of 

 iizc of pipe stems. The whole piece, with the 

 ption of the trampling and rolling over in some 

 i by three unruly boys upon the Sabbath, stood 

 ell — much better and stronger than it would 



done had the blades been more numerous. — 

 piece has been carefully reaped, and the re- 

 is two hundred and seventy five stooks of twelve 

 'les each, making twelve loads, which will 

 h at least twelve tons. The opinion is, that 

 bur acres will turn out full three hundred bush- 

 f oats. We have seen not another such piece 

 ts in this part of New Hampshire : if any man 

 produced more, we invite him to communicate 

 act through the columns of the Monthly Visi- 



Farmer's Monthly Visitor. 



Kiciiii ilic Alliuiiy CulUTiilur. 



RK.MEDV FOR Tlin TURNII' KLV. 



Afrssrs. Gdi/lord (f Tucker — .\h every thing is of 

 interest to the farmer which enables hiiii li> guard 

 against the depredations of the insect world, us 

 well as to ovcrcoiiio the notions of by.gonu days 

 which have lung since been e.vplodcd by the light 

 of science and experience, I have taken the liberty 

 of communicating for the Cultivator somo e.\'peri- 

 meiils relative to the preserving ruta buga and oth- 

 er turnip plants from their most destructive enemy, 

 the black lly. 



iMany farmers have abandoned the ruta baga cul- 

 ture entirely, in consequence of the great uncer- 

 tainty of the crop. I have for several years con- 

 tended with the little black fly or flea, which at- 

 tacks the plant as soon as it appears, anil often in 

 a single night destroys a whole field. Many a 

 see.l-soller has been overwhelmed with anathemas 

 for selling bad seed, when the little fly has made 

 way with the plants before tlio farmer was up in 

 the morning. 1 have never until this season been 

 able to arrest the depredations of the fly, except 

 partially. 



In the June number of the Genesee Farmer, I 

 noticed a remedy for the fly, recommended by Mr 

 Parsons, of Perry. The method which he has 

 adopted with entire success, is " to soak the seed 

 tor '.i4 or 48 hours in tanner's oil, and then roll it 

 in plaster to facilitate sowing." A very little oil 

 will bo sufficient. I tried the remedy on my seed 

 this year, and with most entire success. The offen- 

 siveness of the oil is imparted to the plant, I pre- 

 sume, and if so, it is no wonder the fly is willing 

 to seek some more delicious herb on which to perch 

 and satisfy himself. I made trial of some seed as 

 usual III the same field, but found that the fly took 

 nearly all the plants. 



With Mr Parsons, I would say to the incredu- 

 lous, put this receipt by, and make the experiment. 

 It will not cost you much, and if it save you four 

 or five hundred bushels of roots, for an expendi- 

 ture of sij ctnls for oil, you will bo repaid for hav- 

 ing yielded once to experimenting. 



B. P. JOHNSON. 



ducate a community in the idea that to work 

 the hands is degrading and dishonorable, and 

 educate them for vice and misery. 



RECIPES. 



Mr Gray, of Trumbull co., Ohio, informs us that 

 a gill of melted lard turned down the throat of a 

 sheep, is an effectual remedy for that animal when 

 poisoned with the low laurel, which abounds in 

 some parts of the country. 



He says it will also cure persons that are poison- 

 ed with the vine called running ivy, or mercury, 

 frequently found on low meadows, by rubbing it 

 on two or three times, whenever its etTccts are felt. 



lie recommends the following to cure the bloat 

 in cattle : — Take about half a pound of salt pork 

 that is fat; cut it into slices, and draw out the ani- 

 mal's tongue, and place the pork as far down the 

 throat as possible, when it will be swallowed, and 

 relief soon be given, if the bloat is caused by clo- 

 ver or fresh erass. I have known from 1 pint to 

 1 quart of melted lard (according to the size of the 

 animal,) turned down the throat, used with the best 

 effect in cases of bloat. — Mhany Cult. 



Be indefatigable in your honest pursuits : — you 

 will always obtain a part of what you seek ; and 

 the first success, however faint, will give you cour- 

 age in your farther efTorts. 



SMOKI.NU FlRKl'LACKS. 



A correspondent of the Albany ('ultivator gives 

 the following hints on the construction of chimnoyi 

 so as to prevent their smoking : 



"The best means of preveiitirtg that pest, smok- 

 ing fireplaces, is to build so as to produce a alronf;, 

 sltiul;i drnuglU. 'J'lie nir in the chimney is rarified 

 liy the heat from the fire, and roiisecpicntly rises; 

 the air in the room lills up the partial vacuum, and 

 a current is established. To insure ii draught in 

 the chimney, the air entering it should bo heated 

 as much as possible. This is done by having the 

 mantle or front of the fireplace low : this ivill force 

 the air nearer the fire, and of course cause it to 

 rise with more velocity, because it will be heated 

 more than in a high front fireplace. The back 

 should bo of the same height as the front. If a 

 tight room has a largo fireplace and chimney, it 

 will smoke, because thcr>! will not sufficient air en- 

 ter the room through the crevices of the doors and 

 windows to produce an active draught up the chim- 

 ney, and the cooler, heavier air on the outside will 

 reverse the current, and force the smoke down into 

 the room. Long chimneys usually have a stronger 

 draught than short ones, as the column of rarified 

 air is longer, but they may be made so long as to 

 cool the air before it reaches the mouth of the 

 chimney ; for this reason very long stove pipes 

 smoke more frequently than pipes or chimneys that 

 are shorter. It ia necessary, also, that the interior 

 of a chimney should be smooth, so as to present 

 no impediment to the smoke." 



[There lived in our native town, years ago, a 

 waggish old man by the name of Skidmore. Be- 

 ing plagued with a smoky house, he had some al- 

 teration made in the chimney, but with no good re- 

 sult. One of his neighbors knowing this, said to 

 him, " Well, Skidmore, how does your chimney 

 work now ? smoke any ?" " Not a bit !" " What, 

 not smoke .' You know it does as bad as ever." 

 " I say it don't smoke a bit." " But you know it 

 does." " I say it don't smoke a bit — the smoke all 

 goes out at the ivindow .'"] — Ed. N. E. F. 



From the New Genesee Farmer. 



SHEEP POISONED BY THE COMMON RED 

 CHERRY. 



.Messrs Eitilors — Some six or eight years since, 

 while carrying on farming at Rock Stream, one of 

 my orchards, in which was a variety of fruit trees, 

 including a number of the common red sour cherry, 

 became covered with a luxuriant growth of grass, 

 to destroy which, I turned in, about the first of 

 September, fifty or sixty Merino sheep. The ani- 

 mals seemed unusually fond of eating the young 

 cherry sprouts which had sprung up very thick un- 

 der and about the cherry trees. In less than an 

 hour a large proportion of them were discovered to 

 be diseased. They staggered continually, pitch- 

 ing forward upon their heads, and often turning 

 entirely over upon their backs. In the course of 

 two or three hours several of them had died ; the 

 remainder gradually recovered. 



Post mortem examinations proved that their sto- 

 machs were compactly filled with the leaves of the 

 cherry sprouts, containing, I presume, prussic acid 

 sufficient to destroy animal life. 



E. BARNES. 



NoTF. — A neighbor of mine lost a cow from 

 her eating the leaves of a cherry tree, which had 

 been blown down by a wind storm. 



